Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces), the Foreign Ministers said the polite things one says to his host. Marshall smilingly thanked Molotov for keeping chain-smoking U.S. Adviser Ben Cohen in cigarets. As Cohen blushed and glanced at his plateful of butts, Bevin said, "Well, we can help on that too," tossed Cohen a pack of English cigarets. At 7:35, with a round of handshaking, the conference adjourned...
...golden cornet and played The Blue Bells of Scotland, sweet and lovingly. Then he broke into half a dozen low-driving hot choruses. One witness said: "They like to never got that ship docked. That horn held up the war." Jimmy kept Bix's golden horn in his pack when he landed in Normandy. One night, at a U.S.O. show, he met a girl named Marion Page, billed as "England's Queen of the Swing Piano." He got himself put on detached service so he could travel with the show, married the girl, and fought the rest...
...dancer from Toledo. Her name was Patricia Schmidt, but she had wiggled her way along the honky-tonk circuit from Chicago to Trinidad as "Satira." When she moved aboard, to share Mee's cabin, his pal Charles Jackson obligingly moved to another. One day Mee told her to pack up; his wife was coming down from Chicago. They fought, Patricia shot Mee, and a few days later he died...
...luncheon, "is let my readers participate in my experiences in collecting news, whether it's real or phony." He had been letting his readers in on his facts & fancies since he joined U.P. in South America at 19. Fired in Paris (for wearing a red beard, according to Pack), he was rehired to cover the Ethiopian and Spanish wars. He was Rome bureau chief when the Fascists interned him and his wife, Eleanor, whose by-line had become as well-known and somewhat more reliable. The Packards got even with Mussolini by writing a book called Balcony Empire...
...Pack and his "Pibe" (Argentine slang for "The Kid") got back in time to cover Italy's fall. One night in Naples, tipped off that an Allied bigwig was arriving, they invited fellow reporters in for a binge. While Pibe got them drunk, Pack slipped out to get his interview. When the boys missed him and scrambled in pursuit, they found that he had crippled their jeeps...